“My mother told me that when I was born a wave of feeling came over her,” Kirsten recently told the U.K.’s Telegraph.

“She just knew that I was destined to be an actress. Every time we’d go to the grocery store everyone would come up to her and say, ‘Your daughter is so animated, she’s such a happy child, she has such a light, you should put her in commercials.’ My mom thought, ‘OK, we’ll try acting and put away some money for college.’ I booked my first commercial and that was it,” she added.